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Pioneers in California

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the changes the pioneers brought to California in the 1800's. They develop a timeline that includes captions, symbols, and pictures, and write a paragraph describing the experiences of the early California pioneers.
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Pioneer Currency in Utah: Have you got change for a 5?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the need for money in a society and the artificial value of coin and paper currencies. They design their own coin and paper currency.
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Pioneer Currency in Utah: Have you got change for 5?

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine why pioneer society needed a uniform medium of exchange -- not so much among themselves, but for use with non-Mormon suppliers and California immigrants.
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Narrative History - Hypertext Dialogues

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create scripts about California settlers. The document reflects the settlers' fears, expectations, and realizations.
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Mountain Men

For Students 4th - 5th
In this history worksheet, learners read a one page article about life on the Oregon trail and the fur traders and mountain men. Students then answer 4 essay questions.
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Trailblazers - Now and Then

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, working in pairs, use maps to determine the most efficient routes between two cities. They research which route would have been used by early trailblazers. They present a first person account of one of the trailblazers place in...
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Lesson 6: Native Americans in the West

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students recall their knowledge of Native American people who lived in the West and reflect on how their perspectives differed from pioneers and argonauts of the 19th century.
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Trailblazers- Now and Then

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine and study the routes of trailblazers. In this American history activity, students find a route on a map and compare that to the route of trailblazers. Students will then compare that map with a topographical map to...
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The Dairy Shoppe

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research dairy farming and learn about dairy products as well as dairy processing. In this dairy lesson, 5th graders read background information about dairy farming and processing. Students discuss running a small business...
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Hispanic Immigration: America in the Year 2000

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate the underlying reasons for immigration, focusing on five major trends: political, economic, family, career and educational. They examine the immigration of Spanish speaking groups.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology: Uniformitarianism

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the pioneers in Earth's geologic history and their discovery of how the process of uniformitarianism shaped the study of evolution.